Electric starter.



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ELECTRIC STARER. Awucmxon man ums, 1917.

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it makes contact with the stationary contact o1, the poles g are excited by means of the thin wire winding z' in series with the armature a and the battery Z, whereby the armature is drawn into the field in order to bring the members d and e of the gear into engagement with each other. After the coupling of the armature shaft with the engine shaft through the intermediary of' the gear, the switch arm fm, is shifted in such a. position that its contact mi makes Acontact with the stationary Contact 02 in addi tion to its Contact with the stationary contact 01, whereby the rthick Wire winding is connected in shunt with the thin wire winding i, the motor now running as a series motor with thc two windings h and 2' L; parallel with each other.

The two windings 7L and z' may be arranged to act differentially instead of in the same sense,

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new' and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A method of starting an internal com-- bustion engine by means of an electric niotor through the intermediary oi a gear, one nien'iber ot' which is mechanicaliy attached to the engine, and the other member thereof to an axially displaccable armature of the motor which is drawn into the field by the magnetization of the poles consisting in en citing the field hy means oil two excitation coils, the number OI" turns and the total resistance of the one coil being substantial' greater than the number of turns and tlm total resistance of the other the field being excited irf't by means oi the excitation coil harino` he grr atei nuxnher of and the greater total rc ance in series with the armature and a. source of c rent9 and. then by means of the two excitation coils in parallel to cach other, and the two thus connected together in series with the arma-- ture ano source of current, as und 'for the purpose set forth.

In testimony where t have signed my name to this sl'iecicatienu All 

